The Little Horn - Antiochus Epiphanes (Daniel 8:9-14)

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So let's open in prayer father. Your word is truth. It is dynamic.

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It is awesome It is wonderful. It is what gives us life and what points us to the true life, which is

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Jesus Christ We look to your word for everything for life and godliness in him.

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We look to your word for revelation Especially in our own lives that we might learn what it is

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We need to change learn what we need to submit to your Holy Spirit to become followers of Christ indeed

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And this morning as we're looking in the book of Daniel, there's much that's difficult to understand. There's much that's hidden There's much that you said some things you will shut up until the end but Help us to understand what we can and to apply it to our lives

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Not so that we know more than the guy next to us, but so that we love you more We ask you for your wisdom this morning for your illumination and for your help and understanding these things and it's in Jesus name

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We pray Amen So the more I study the book of Daniel, especially chapter 8 the more

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I realize I don't know very much And the average Hebrew In Daniel chapter 8 would be asked why weren't didn't you read 1 through 7?

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Oh, it's all Aramaic to me Well, okay.

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We're off to a bad start So chapter 8 we began a couple of weeks ago

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Let's see. We actually began July 3rd and in chapter 8 Daniel returns to the

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Hebrew language because this section of the book is given to warnings exhortations and information for his countrymen and so different from the first part of the book, which was was which dealt with Kingdom of Babylon issues and was written in the language of the kingdom of Babylon.

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This section is again in Hebrew There are several visions coming in chapter 8 9

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And on to the end of the chapter and end of the book and we will be dealing with them as well as we can

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Couple of housekeeping items. We're going to be looking into the books of into the book of 1st Maccabees now 1st

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Maccabees is not inspired, but it's a good history It's a historical book.

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I have a series written of histories that I read that these people Durant they do a good job in recording history.

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They're not inspired But if I want to know what was happening in 300 BC Greece they're a pretty good reference book to go to and look actually they used in many cases they used letters and Legal papers from the time that they wrote about so that they could understand better what was going on in those times

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So in Daniel chapter 8 we will be looking we will be comparing some of the scriptures in first Some of the history in first Maccabees to the scripture

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Daniel 8 The first rule of thumb is that the scripture is always true and every man a liar the scripture is always true and as Science true science and his story history unfolds and we are given more insight into the past.

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We will always see history Chronology chronology the chronology of history acknowledging and affirming the truth of Scripture a

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Great deal of this happened with the Babylonian Chronicles people didn't even believe Belshazzar existed The Bible said he did and oh lo and behold in the early 1900s

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They found out that well actually he did exist and he did all the stuff that Daniel said he did and the elsewhere in the scriptures

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The scripture was true History had to catch up and that may be some of what is happening in this part of the book of Daniel So we looked at his reign or his his vision

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Which appeared to him he said and we're gonna read the first 15 verses first 14 verses first 14 verses of chapter 8

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Before I get into this, so let's do that. Let's read from Daniel chapter 8 1 through 14 in the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a

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Vision appeared to me Daniel Subsequent to the one which appeared to me previously and I looked in the vision and it came about while I was looking that I was in the site citadel of Susa Which is in the prophets province of Elam and I looked in the vision and I myself was beside the

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Uli Canal Then I lifted my gaze and I looked and behold a ram which had two horns was standing in front of the canal

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Now the two horns were long, but one was longer than the other with the longer one coming up last

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I saw a ram budding westward northward and southward and no other beast could stand before him Nor was there anyone to rescue from his power, but he did as he pleased and he magnified himself while I was observing behold a male goat was coming from the west over the surface of the whole earth without touching the ground and The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes and he came up to the ram that had the two horns

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Which I had seen standing in front of the canal and rushed at him in his mighty wrath

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And I saw him come beside the ram and he was enraged at him and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns and The ram had no strength to withstand him

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So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him and there was none to rescue the ram from his power Then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly

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But as soon as he was mighty the large horn was broken and in its place there came up for conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven and Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn

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Which grew exceedingly great toward the south toward the east and toward the beautiful land and it grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to earth and It trampled them down and even magnet even magnified itself to be equal with the commander of the host and it removed the regular

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Sacrifice from him and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down and on account of transgression

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The host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper

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Then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking

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How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply while the transgression causes horror?

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So as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled and he said to me for 2300 evenings and mornings then the holy place will be properly restored

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So in in chapter 8 we looked at the the the beginning of the vision and it starts out with Daniel being transported into the province of Sioux the province of Sousa there into the citadel of Sousa Excuse me

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And he's standing by the Yulai Canal and he lifts his gaze and he sees the ram and we discovered we we described we discussed

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What the ram was and the and the goat So The ram was the

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Medo -Persian ascendancy one horn was larger than the other the one part of that Ascendancy was more powerful than the other and then he saw the ram

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Taking property budding northward westward southward conquering and he did as he pleased and he magnified himself and then in verse 5

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There was a goat that came over the surface of the earth didn't even touch the earth. That's how fast Alexander's campaign

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Proceeded especially in those days 11 ,000 miles in three years. He conquered the known earth the known area

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And he he had a conspicuous horn that goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes this

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Referenced Alexander the Great he came up to the ram that had the two horns Which he had seen standing in the canal and rushed him in his mighty wrath verse 6 says and then verse 7

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I saw him come beside the ram and he was enraged at him and he struck the ram shattered his horns Two horns on the ram had no strength to withstand him

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Medo -Persian went down under the power of Alexander So he hurled him to the ground and trampled him and there was none to rescue the ram from his power

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Nobody came no way. No allies came to aid the Medo -Persians Everybody fell in the the onslaught of Alexander Then verse 8 then the male goat magnified himself exceedingly.

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But as soon as he was mighty Alexander was 32 years old when he finished his conquest and he was dead at 33

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The large horn was broken and in its place there came up force can conspicuous horns toward the four winds

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We looked at those we realized that those horns were his the four generals that served under Alexander and then

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We we talked about the particular method that he might have died Was he murdered was he poisoned he what what exactly happened to him?

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And I think if some of you might remember there's pretty good evidence From historical perspective and from the historians of the time that he probably died of ghoulian -barre syndrome and that's one of the reasons why people thought he was a god because he was dead in air quotes and His body wasn't decomposing

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It was probably because he was in a deep coma and the science of the time could not detect his breath

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And so what killed him was the embalming process. I understand that's pretty Definitive.

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Yeah, so Don't don't get embalmed until you're done. Okay? So however, he died we know that whatever happened to him was exactly on the schedule of the sovereign

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God of the universe and his conquering was God's design so that the next nation that would come the

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Roman nation would be set up to do that but we're not there yet, we're not there yet and So we're gonna look at verse 9 now, we're gonna start in chapter 8 verse 9 out of one of them those four horns

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Came forth a rather small horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south toward the east and toward the beautiful Now the word land is supplied out of Daniel chapter 9

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It's the Israelites would have understood this and often sometimes we have app We have supply supplying words so that we understand the scripture.

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This is the the beautiful land is Israel Here then is one of the most controversial one of the most controversial verses in this fiction this vision

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Just what is this little horn? What is it referring to the horn is little at the beginning and this would refer to the power of this

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King his name was Antiochus Epiphanes or Antiochus the fourth who was also known as Antiochus Epiphanes He was not the rightful heir to the throne and he seceded to the throne using bribery and treachery and flattery

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The Encyclopedia Britannica describes his early years this way Antiochus was the third son of Antiochus three the great after his father's defeat by the

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Romans in 190 and 189 190 to 189 He served as hostage for his father in Rome 189 to 175

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So what would happen was? well

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What would happen was science has defeated me again? Can you put me on what was 125 of the map?

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And we'll start there Marvy, thanks Antiochus was the third son

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So what would happen was when a Roman there would be a conquering they would take the hostage

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They would take a son or a daughter some Relative of the the conquered nation in who was in the kingship or in the hierarchy of the rulership the oligarchy

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I guess and take them back to Rome as a hostage that there to be no no shenanigans In this nation that the

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Romans were conquering so his brother King Seleucus the fourth exchanged him for Demetrius the son of Seleucus and after Seleucus was murdered by Helodorus this is out of Encyclopedia Britannica a usurper

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Antiochus in turn ousted him during this period of uncertainty in Syria the guardians of Ptolemy the fourth the

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Egyptian ruler laid claim to Syria Palestine and Phoenicia Which Antiochus 3 had conquered both the

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Syrian and Egyptian parties appealed to Rome for help But the Senate refused to take sides in 173

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Antiochus paid the remainder of the war indemnity that had been imposed by the Romans on Antiochus 3 at the

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Treaty of Apamea so flattery treachery and money

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Silver -crossing palms that's part of how Antiochus came to power This is the king that we

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I believe that Daniel talks about again in chapter 11 verse 21 in his place a

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Despicable person will arise on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred But what he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue

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Daniel 11 21 So Antiochus his reign was occupied with subduing the

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Jews and they hated him He was an intense object of hatred during this time period even

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Jews of the area found him to be a despicable man the story in Polybus who was a contemporary of Antiochus referred to the king as Epiphanies which means the insane one.

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It was a play on his name Epiphanies He told many tales of Antiochus is drunken

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Eccentric behavior including sneaking out of the palace to feast at parties with commoners and play his flute

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Apparently he was such a bad musician or just such an annoying buffoon that most people fled from the parties that he came to This is out of histories

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Antiochus his campaigns were directed primarily to Egypt the south In first Maccabees 1 16 to 19 2 through 19.

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This is the history recorded by the Maccabeans Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus He thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude with chariots with elephants and horsemen and a great

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Navy and He made war against Ptolemy king of Egypt But Ptolemy was afraid of him and fled and many were wounded to death

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Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof so he took over he made war against the south in Egypt and took that and then also towards Armenia and Elimus the east

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Maccabees 1 Maccabees 3 31 wherefore being greatly perplexed in his mind

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He determined to go into Persia there to take the tributes of the countries and to gather much money so the king took half of the forces that remained and departed from Antioch his royal city the 147th year and having passed the river

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Euphrates He went through the high countries the dates we will be talking with we will be using are the Seleucid era dates

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Which would be what the Jews would have used during this time Maccabees 1 Maccabees 6 says about the time

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That King Antioch is traveling through the high countries heard say that Elimus in the country of Persia was a city greatly renowned for riches silver and gold and that there was in it a very

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Rich temple wherein more coverings of gold and breastplates and shields Well, which

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Alexander son of Philip the Macedonian king who reigned first among the Grecians had left there Wherefore he came and sought to take the city and to spoil it

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But he was not able because they of the city haven't had warning thereof rose up against him in battle So he fled and departed thence with great heaviness and returned to Babylon So he conquered several areas to the south

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Egypt and to the east Medo -Persia or Armenia as is recorded in history the third location

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He attacked which is referred to in this verse as the beautiful land again with the word land supplied later from verses in Daniel and elsewhere, of course, the beautiful land is

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Israel and We can see that from many other locations in Scripture I must have lost her so We have a

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Where are we? That's the beautiful land where you see the word Jerusalem of the city Jerusalem up there

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Daniel 11 16, but he who comes against him will do as he pleases and no one will be able to withstand him

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He will also stay for a time in the beautiful land with destruction in his hand Daniel 11 41

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He will also enter the beautiful land and many countries will fall but these will be rescued out of his hand

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Edom Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon Daniel 11 45 he will pitch his tents

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He will pitch the tents of his royal pavilion between the seas and the beautiful Holy Mountain yet He will come to his end and no one will help him

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Jeremiah 3 19 then I said How will I how would I set you among my sons and give you a pleasant land the most beautiful inheritance of the nations?

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And I said you shall call me my father and not turn away from following me Ezekiel 26 26

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And on that day I swore to them bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected them flowing With milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands and Zechariah 7 14

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But I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth for they made this the pleasant land desolate

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Antiochus was especially vicious to the Jews pillaging and killing at will Most of this is recording and first is recorded in 1st and 2nd

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Maccabees and in the writings of Josephus one commentator put it this way He said this suppression came to a head in December 168

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BC when Antiochus returned in frustration From Alexandria where he had been turned back by the

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Roman commander Populus Alanus He wanted he vented his exasperation on the

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Jews He sent his general Apollonius With 20 ,000 troops under orders to siege

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Jerusalem to seize Jerusalem on a Sabbath There he erected an idol of Zeus and desecrated the altar by offering swine on it

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This idol became known to the Jews as the abomination of desolation Which served as a type of a future abomination that will be set up in the

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Jerusalem Sanctuary to be built in the last days based on Christ's prediction in Matthew 24

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The rather small horn is not Rome as some have suggested but is in fact

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Antiochus Epiphanes a simple straightforward interpretation of Scripture yields this historical fact that also but also

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Notably Josephus said this in his book 12 chapter 7 He said this desolation happened to the temple in the hundred and forty -fifth year

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This is the Seleucid area on the 25th day of the month Apline's and on the hundred and fifty and third

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Olympiad but it was just dedicated anew on the same day the 25th of the month Apline's on the 148th year and on the hundred and fifty or fifty fourth

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Olympiad and this desolation came to pass according to the prophecy of Daniel Which was given 408 years before for he declared that the

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Macedonians would dissolve that worship for some time Now we don't know exactly what the date of the dissolution of the worship was

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We know in the the date of the ancient abomination of desolation Occurred but we don't know the actual date at this time when the

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Jewish temple Worship the regular sacrifice was disrupted and that's significant

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Verse 10 did anybody any comments or questions about verse 9? Excuse me

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Verse 10 Speaking of the horn It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth and it

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Trampled them down. So Antiochus's rise and rain was meteoric meteoric and tumultuous

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He murdered so many of the Jews that Daniel here in his prophecy notes that fact Some believe that the word stars reversed to those angels and the angelic hosts who were tasked with Israel's protection

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It is more likely that this word and the word for host are simply referring to the many righteous Jews who were murdered by Antiochus Genesis 15 5 the word was often used in in Hebrew literature to denote people to denote

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Important folks or to denote just the the rank -and -file Genesis 15 5 and he took him outside Abraham now look upward toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count

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Them and he said to him so shall your descendants be Genesis 22 17 indeed I will greatly bless you and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sandwiches on the seashore

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And your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies Daniel 12 3 Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven and those who lead the many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever and Then in Matthew 13 43 then the righteous will shine forth as the

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Sun in the kingdom of their father Who had he who has ears to hear let him hear so it's? today When you're talking about unfortunately some celebrity from television, what do people call them?

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They misuse the term in my opinion, but what what are they called? They're called stars. Yeah, just let that sink

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Misapplication of the term, but it's a common term used throughout history to denote some of the more

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Famous in a particular society so in Deuteronomy 419 the word host is also interchangeable by the way with stars in Deuteronomy 419 the scripture says this and beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the

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Sun and the moon and the stars and all the whole all the Sun and the moon and the stars comma all the host of heaven and Be drawn away and worship them and serve them who?

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Those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven and then in Isaiah 40 26

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Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars the one who leads forth their host by number

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He calls them all by name because of the greatness of his might and the strength of his power Not one of them is missing

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It is good for us to always remember that the proper use of the term stars and host is

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Given to us in Scripture and it is that which God has created and Psalm 19 says that it declares to us the glory of God It declares not just to us it declares to all of humanity and has down through all ages the glory of God it declares the

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Glory of God it spreads it before us. It's unmistakable. They would have known this Verse 10

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Excuse me verse 11 by the way one other thing that I need to remember

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I needed to remember verse verse 12 indicates in this chapter that Antiochus his army had control over the host and stars and this would be very difficult if it actually referred to angel angels

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So it's most likely that Daniel is referring to Israelites Maybe influential Israelites, but people who were murdered by Antiochus who were destroyed by him because of his hatred of the

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Jews verse 11 The horn again it even magnified itself to be equal with the commander of the host and it removed the regular

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Sacrifice from him and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down So let's look at let's go back to chapter 29 of the book of Exodus And we'll see what the regular is now in this verse the word regular

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Does not have the word sacrifice following it that is supplied for Understanding a

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Jew would have known what it meant a Hebrew would have known what it meant. There was a in Exodus chapter 29

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Verses 38 and 39. We're giving the we're given the information about what the regular is the regular sacrifice

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Let's look at verse 37 first for 30 for seven days You shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it then the altar shall be most holy and whatever touches the altar shall be holy

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Now this is what you shall offer on the altar to one year old lambs each day

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Continuously the one lamb you shall offer in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight

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So this is the this is the regular sacrifice that was put there for continual remembrance of Yahweh, this was to keep

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Yahweh before the eyes of the Jews all the time Can you see why a foreign king would want to remove this sacrifice?

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It was supposed to remind them of their God day and night. It was a reminder.

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It was a Necklace hung around your neck or Frontlets or whatever the some of the other things they use the

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Jews used to remind themselves of things things we do calendar You know, you got your calendar that beeps this was the ones this was the twice daily sacrifice that reminded the

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Jews that Yahweh was their God and they owed him everything And so when we see later on the abomination of desolation, it takes on a greater importance at least it did to me

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The intention is to remove every concept of Yahweh from our eyes from from the

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Jews eyes remove him from their consciousness and Replace him replace Yahweh with a false

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God in this case Antiochus, which we will see later on numbers 28 numbers 28 three and four

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Just reiterates this. I just wanted to look at each iteration of it and You shall say to them

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This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the Lord two male lambs one year old Without defect as a continual burnt offering every day

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You shall offer the one lamb in the morning and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight and in the evening morning and evening offerings and then again in Ezekiel 46 13 carried on through I Should have marked these 46 13

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It's an embarrassing thing to say but I'll admit it I've been reading and studying the Bible for the better part of 45 years and I still don't have the order memorized in the

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Old Testament so if there's any of you out there we're compadres we're compadres. Yeah, I should have it memorized

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What is it goes Genesis Exodus Leviticus and then there's a little song like the alphabet song

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Is there anybody in here who can teach me that song? Okay. Thank you. Amanda.

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We'll be talking 46 13 46 13 And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the

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Lord daily morning by morning This was shall you provide it? This was for the

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Lord. This was a reminder to the Jews and it was something they were doing in Devotion to him

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Antiochus any King would want that removed and then last Just remembering that every day was supposed to be a constant devotion to Yahweh And this would have been the

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Jewish the Hebrew reminder the Jewish reminder the once in the morning and the once in the evening sacrifice

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In a fashion similar to the attempt Satan made on God in Isaiah chapter 14 to become equal with him

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Antiochus usurps the worship of Yahweh in the sanctuary of the temple and throws down the sanctuary in his mind in Antiochus is now

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I'm not not saying I read I understand his mind But this would be the standard operating procedure of a mind like this in his mind the desecration of the temple and his halt of the worship of Yahweh Exalted him over the

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God of the Hebrews. He conquered the God of the Hebrews in his mind The fact that he stopped the regular sacrifice indicates that he disrupted the entire system the

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Jews had for worshiping Yahweh This is recorded again in Maccabees in 1st Maccabees 1 44 through 50 again good history not scripture for the king had sent letters by messengers into Jerusalem in the cities of Judah that they should follow the strange laws of the land and forbid burn offerings and sacrifice and drink offerings in the temple and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days and pollute the sanctuary and holy people set up altars and groves and chapels of idols and sacrifice swine's flesh and unclean beasts that they also should also leave their children uncircumcised and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation to the end that they might forget the law and Change all the ordinances and whosoever would not do according to this commandment of the king.

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He said he should die so this wasn't just You know something posted on the town bulletin board

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This was a proclamation in a law if you didn't obey this you could die. You probably could die

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While the wording thrown down might refer to the complete destruction of the temple it is likely that it does not however

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It is significant that after the removable removal of the desecration from the temple the

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Jews completely Recrafted we gifted everything and refitted everything in first Maccabees for 42 through 49 after they this is after the throwing down the conquering the

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The revolt where they overthrew Antiochus, so he chose priests of blameless conversation

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This is God the the priest the Jewish priest Such as had pleasure in the law who cleansed the sanctuary and bear out the defiled stones into an unclean place

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And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profane They thought it best to pull it down Lest it should be a reproach to them because the heathen had defiled it

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Wherefore they pulled it down and laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place until there should come a

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Prophet to show what should be done with them then they took whole stones according to the law and built a new altar according to the former and made up the

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Sanctuary and the things that were within the temple and hallowed courts They made also new holy vessels and into the temple

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They brought the candlestick and the altar of burnt offerings and of incense and the table So once the con once the revolution was at least at this point of it

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This part of it was over where they had thrown him back out of the temple. They completely refitted the temple they took everything that he had profaned out and Refitted it with new items and took all this stuff up into the mountains and just left it there

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It says until they a prophet should arise to tell him what to do with it While this portion of the prophecy did have complete fulfillment into in Antiochus There are clear indications that this also has in times implication, especially when one considers

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Daniel 927 and it says this in Daniel 927 and he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week

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But in the middle of the week, he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering and on the wing of abomination

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Will come one who makes desolate even until a complete destruction One that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate

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So Daniel is this prophecy for the future indicates that there could be something Similar to this and then

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Jesus talks about it in the New Testament So we will have that we'll look at that as we get to those. I don't want to steal

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Daniel 9's thunder Okay, we'll look at that as we get to Daniel 9 So any comments on verse 11?

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So we have a king who has come in and he's going to he hasn't done it yet But he's going to do everything he can to completely stop any remembrance of the

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God of the Jews This isn't this that's the abomination the swine on the altar that that's in the

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Jewish mind That is a picture of the abomination But the abomination is when anyone puts someone some other

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God whatever it is or whoever it is in the place of Yahweh That's the abomination that's going to going to go on here verse 12 and On account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn the small horn the

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Relatively small horn along with the regular sacrifice and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper

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So this is a confirmation of the fact that Antiochus did for a short time

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Enjoy complete control over the Jews and their mode of worship the truth He flung to the ground would be the scriptures at that time

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Which would essentially be the law of Moses quite a few early prophets and histories as well as Proverbs Ecclesiastes song of Solomon and Psalms I had a list and There it is.

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So up to This would have been the truth at the time that he would flung it would have flung to the ground all of the recorded canon at the time

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Genesis Job Exodus and Leviticus numbers in Deuteronomy Joshua Judges and Ruth first and second

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Samuel first Chronicles Psalms Amos Hosea Proverbs Ecclesiastes song of Solomon first and second

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Kings Joel Micah Isaiah Zephaniah Habakkuk Jeremiah Lamentations Jonah Nahum Obadiah Those would have all been truths that would have been destroyed or taken out of the

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Jews use so However, many of them had scriptures memorized they would have been the people of the day as Do many wicked believers when they attack the people of God Antiochus proffered prospered?

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Excuse me. His kingdom drew strong relatively strong, but his time was coming verse 13

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Daniel says this he said then I heard a holy one speaking and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking

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How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply While the transgression causes horror so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled now

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I see that it's 1004 and This next section I have is seven pages long in my little tiny print

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So we're not going to get through all of it But I will try to find an appropriate place to stop now

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Daniel Here's what is most certainly an angel speaking to another angel about the desecration and horror

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This reminds us that only God is omniscient even his immediate servants the angels which are flames of fire that serve the people of God do not know everything only

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God is omniscient and so Daniel asked these these servants these but these

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Beings how long will this happen? He heard what a holy one asking another one? How long will this be and so then the interesting thing here is?

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Who does that? being answer It's kind of like he got the question from Rick and then he turned and said

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Here's the answer to someone else He answers Daniel. He said to me for 2300 now get this evenings and mornings

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The holy place will be properly restored So a great deal of controversy surrounds this verse regarding whether or not the number means 2300 days 2300 years or 1150 days of to service to sacrifices daily

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There are a great many well respected scholars who interpret this as a full 2300 days There are some and I want to look at this because this group does a lot of prophecy work

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It's all bad, but they do a lot of prophecy work. You see their posters you see their signs and They're pretty well

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Understood to be the Understanders of the end times at least to to the end the unknowing

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So there are a great many of them They are there are plenty but they mostly were led by the seventh -day

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Adventist from about a hundred and fifty years ago who interpret it as years They predicted the end date of 1844 1884.

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That was the date that that the Sanctuary was going to the holy the holy

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The holy of holies was going to have Jesus enter into it and he was going to he was going to judge everyone This was supposed to be when it happened when that did not happen

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They decided that the trampling of the holy place then referred to a heavenly holy place and its restoration referred to the idea that Christ entered into the heavenly sanctuary and Began investigating all of the sins of everyone who has existed.

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This is their official statement Christ moved from the holy place to the most holy place in the heavenly sanctuary on October 22nd 1844 excuse me.

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I got my date wrong there. It's 1844 and Began a new phase of ministry

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This ministry was foreshadowed by the Levitical Day of Atonement The first phase of the

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Day of Atonement is called the cleansing of the sanctuary it invokes It involves a pre -advent investigation and judging of God's people to determine whose sins will be removed from the sanctuary

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Christ started this judgment in 1844 beginning with Adam and Eve and progressing chronologically down through the ages now

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Let me just stop right there for a minute How much time do you think the omniscient

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God of the universe needs to figure out who is a sinner and who isn't? I Thought about going through this whole thing.

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I'm gonna kind of hit the high points, but Refresh my memory if I'm not mistaken

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Didn't he choose you before the beginning of time? So he already knew your catalog of sins

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Multiple billions of eons ago and I'm only attaching a number to it because that's what I have to do because I'm a nerd a math

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Nerd, but it's the word was eternity past So he's always known

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That those he would choose the elect would be sinners They would need the work of the

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Lord Jesus Christ to undo that in any rate So I'm not going to finish their statement just a few high points

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God already knows his own John 1014 I am the

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Good Shepherd and once the investigation is done I might know my own and I might check with God the

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Father and see if we can figure out which ones have sins It doesn't say that. I Know my own and my own know me 2nd

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Timothy 2 19 11 nevertheless the firm foundation of God stands having this seal The Lord knows those who are his and everyone who names the name of the

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Lord is to abstain from wickedness Number two God knows everything But I repeat myself

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Can a man hide himself in hiding places? So I do not see him declares the Lord do I not fill the heavens and the earth declares the

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Lord Jeremiah 23 24 I have a whole host of scriptures here in 1844

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God already knew everyone that was saved he he before the world even existed He knew the exact list of which humans he would be saved and which ones would be lost

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Why would God need to investigate anything that he is known forever? When are sins blotted out

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Such were some of you Paul said in 1st Corinthians, but you were washed were his past tense, right

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You were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our

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God John 1st John 1 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light we have

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Fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin 1st Peter 1 18 and 19

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Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your feudal way of life inherited from your forefathers

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But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb unblemished and spotless the blood of Christ. We have been

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Deemed our sins have been deemed blotted out. The Atonement was completed the cross They teach that is not they teach that it is not complete until the investigated judgment is completed just prior to the

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Second Coming The Bible teaches that the Atonement was completed when Jesus died on the cross What did he say on the cross?

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What were his last words? As soon as the investigation investigative judgment is concluded it is finished

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He said it is finished. It is finished But he having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time sat down at the right hand of God Waiting from that time forward until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet for by one offering

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He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. And when did he do that? He did that at the cross

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The Bible teaches that Christ's Atonement on the cross has perfected past tense His children

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Christians are not made perfect during the investigative judgment if we are in Christ Then we were made perfect 2 ,000 years ago through Christ's perfect sacrifice on Calvary Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus No condemnation

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It said that prophecy is supposed to be comforting and it is for the comfort of the believers

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But for me, that's not prophecy, but that's comforting Romans 8 1 there is no condemnation to those eternal life begins a conversion well, actually eternal life began at your birth, but Eternal life with Christ began a conversion

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John 5 24 the cases of the righteous have already been decided Can you think of one that's already been decided and has actually happened in history who remember the fight over Moses's body in?

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Jude Moses was decided What about the guy next to Jesus on the cross as soon as the investigative judgment is completed you will join me in paradise

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He said today Abraham Isaac and Jacob Enoch Moses Elijah at any rate there's a whole list

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I could go through them, but we don't have time Where have I heard that before? When did

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Christ enter the holiest they teach that Jesus entered in two time two times into the most holy place

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Once it is ascension and once again in 1844 Hebrews The book we are going through now chapter 9 verse 12 and says and not through the blood of goats and calves

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But through his own blood he entered the holy place twice for all once for all

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I Mean this it's not like this is up for question some of these some of these silly

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Bible doctrines that I read I just go did you read the book I? See some of the assemblies of toasters, and I go did you read the instructions?

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You can jack a car up with it, but you're gonna burn your toast Okay enough enough.

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I don't need to go for any more of that other than Hebrews 10 12 because the scripture is wonderful But he having offered one sacrifice

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For sins for all time sat down at the right hand of God it is finished for the most part however scholars ascribe as let's get back into the dispute about 2300 they ascribe either 2300 days or a great many ascribed 2300 morning evening sacrifices which would be 1150 days

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Context alone assures us that the holy place which was trampled in history verse 4 in verse 13 was

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Restored in history verse verse 13 was restored in history verse 14, so this is talking

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Specifically about something that happened there may be in times implications that we will look at later in other sections of Daniel, but this happened 200 300 years after Daniel prophesied it

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For the most part further the entire chapter deals with a vision that is based on earth and not in the heavenlies note

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Also that the word in verses 11 12 and 13 for the regular sacrifice is the word tamid

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T -a -m -i -y -d in the Hebrew, and I may be pronouncing it wrong But that's my best shot at it and is actually just the word a regular

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The word sacrifice is added in the English translations because it would be confusing to an English reader if just the word regular was used here to the

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Jewish reader the word Regular would be well understood as referring to the daily burnt offering one commentator

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Explained it this way. He said I understand the term was partly motivated to see if would he wanted to understand if the term was if it meant to be was

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Connected to the showbread and the candlestick so he said my own exegetical examination of the term Tamid was partly motivated to see if it was really necessary to connect the showbread and the candlestick with the regular essentially to discern if the regular meant the entire setup of the holy place in the temple including the furnishings or It was restricted to the whole burnt offering that was replenished on the altar twice a day

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What caught my attention was that in Daniel 8 11 and 12 the reason the term for burnt offering Ola was not included in those passages

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Was because for the Jews it was redundant in those particular instances the article the is

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Added to tamid making it what is elsewhere an adverb Meaning continual into a noun with a particular idiomatic meaning that noun form of the word ha tamid

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Designates a particular thing that is continual the never -ceasing whole burnt offering on the altar back to what

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I mentioned earlier This was the Jews everyday Continual reminder that Yahweh was their

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God and I've run out of time. I'm gonna finish this and we'll we'll tackle this again next time but The noun so we have a noun the never -ceasing whole offering

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It was not eaten by the priests the word Sacrifices added in English translations of those passages only because writing the regular or the

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Continual would be confusing for us though not for the original Jewish readers actually it would have been better for the supplied word to have been offering because the whole burnt offering was purely for the honor and pleasure of God Not in expiation for sins and that we read in Exodus 29

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This ties in with what verse 8 11 says the rather small horn removed the regular from him

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It was something for God's pleasure that got taken away not an expiatory sacrifice for human sins

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Standard reference work the theological workbook of the old theological word book of the Old Testament says this most frequently this word is used in an adjectal adjectival

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Genitive construction with hola for the continual whole burnt offering made to God every morning and evening so this is a construction that is

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Norman normative in Old Testament usage to refer to the Morning and evening sacrifice the continual the regular that was for Yahweh.

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It was for him It was a sign of devotion to him it was a sign of remembrance to him and it was instructive to the

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Jews and to us as to why Antiochus would want to remove that he would not want them

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Devoted to their God. He would want them devoted to him. I Don't think that's changed down through history, and I don't think it will change

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So before I close what we'll pick this up next week here in the middle of this so what we're going to look at is the potential that the 2300 refers to mornings and evenings or 1150 days and how that works out now if you go home and do the math and look at the history in first Maccabees, you're gonna see that it still doesn't fit and That's my clickbait any comments before we close father your word is

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Always true and anytime we don't understand it it is because we don't have understanding

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You supply that as needed and so Lord we look to you for understanding this section

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But you have also said that there are things you will shut up until the end and it is your people's delight and honor

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To trust you all the way through to the end knowing that you are the God of goodness that you are a good

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God You will always do what your word has said you will do and that is to be true to yourself

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Holy omniscient and perfect I could go through the entire list, but Lord we know that we trust you

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We look to you this morning. We look to you for the morning message that it will instruct us in behavior and in loving you

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Father we we ask you this morning as we read through this section of Daniel to read it again and again